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Response to Berkshire Edge article by Jennifer Browdy to form Mom's Group against Gun Violence after the Oregon shooting (and 'To Stop the Killing of Innocents')

on Thu, 10/08/2015 - 22:51

We can’t let a few (thousand) bad apples (madMen with Guns) spoil the bunch of US-All in the United States of A-Miracle…Yes, we need ‘mothers and others'(as Meryl Streep and Others noted to prevent the use of dangerous herbicides such as alar on apples..or at least warn people and encourage peeling and many other initiatives.

Maybe they can join the many fighting for Gun Control Laws and ReVisions… How can the existing networks collaborate effectively to reframe much of our societal woes and options to slow the destruction of people and plan-it heart?

Hi in Heaven, Pumpkin Kaely! Even though you made it to your teens, I recall the joy you had in the fall as a kid!

on Sat, 10/03/2015 - 16:33

Oaktober is a great time to find that perfect pumpkin at Daisi Hill Farm in Millerton NY (which will be highlighted in Rachel Ray's magazine.) They kindly helped me get a great pumpkin to donate toward the local events as I can manage to haul the 20-lber Great Pumpkin about to share. (Read  this next part with caution as this includes some real-life jazz like birth stories...oh joy)

That's my hometown and the place of Kaelan's high school..and sadly not far from the river which claimed his life in June of 2009 when he tried to save a friend (who was thankfully rescued moments later...so

Trading our own 9-11-01 Trade Tower Recollections of Miracles Amidst the Storm of Change and Loss

on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 19:40

The other day I spoke with a woman about my age. Somehow we got talking about who we know in NYC and she shared that her sister and brother lived there, not far from Battery Park, just a couple blocks from the World Trade Center site.

Of course I felt compelled to ask if they were there when the tragedy struck. She readily answered, "Not only were they there in NYC, but my sister worked in the second building on the 82nd floor, right where the plane struck."

The details followed that her brother and sister who are likely middle-aged as are we, went to the Trade Center together that day,

Thinkin' About Lincoln, "With Charity for All" by Howard Wright, a look-alike Abe!

on Tue, 09/22/2015 - 19:39

What a pleasure to enjoy the hour-long talk by the staturesque Howard Wright portraying Abraham Lincoln at the Northwestern CT Community College Campus Hall on September 10th, 2015.

The lovely evening marked part of NWCC's 50th anniversary and a memorial celebration of a monument to soldiers from the Civil War over the weekend. Abe was just the fellow I wanted to hear from as the events of September 11th, 2001 were being reviewed in the media and in a very poignant reading of all the names at a Patriot Day event in Canaan CT for the fifth year in a row on September 11th, 2015.

I have had

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